Happy New Year! Happy Halloween!

Universal Orlando Resort had an early holiday gift for guests who are visiting in early September 2019.

The park says these guests will now have the opportunity to experience the park's premier Halloween event during their visit.

Universal officials say the event, Halloween Horror Nights, has grown so much and become so popular that the current schedule wasn't sufficient for it.

So, with that in mind, Universal officials say they have chosen start the event with the first Friday of September.

Resort officials say Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights 2019 will run on select nights from Friday, September 6, to Saturday, November 2.

Guests will face haunted houses, scare zones and live entertainment based on everything from horror legends and the top names in pop culture, to disturbing-original stories created exclusively by the twisted minds of Universal's Entertainment team.